On Fri, 29 May 2009, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Mark Overmeer wrote:
And the next consideration: when we have a piece of software which
administers Perl5 or Perl6 or Nokia.bin or Elf. Why stop there?
What is the overlap? It is basically all just some blob of data with
some associated meta-data to search and retreive the blobs. It is only
the client side install tool which looks into the content of the package.
Why not allow pure pod releases? A small step to documents in any other
format. Why not share holiday pictures? Also just a blob of data with
some meta-data.
Your idea of using CPAN to share holiday pictures is one of the things that
really turned me off from your CPAN6 proposal. I do want this to be about
Perl, you don't, and that's a point where we differ. In my examples,
Nokia.bin is so that mobile users don't have to compile software on their
tiny CPUs. I can see merit in adding Ruby modules because in a new Parrot
world, there is real opportunity for Perl and Ruby to share libraries with
each other (e.g. Perl on Rails). But when you start talking about sharing
holiday pictures, you have completely left the Perl realm and I am completely
turned off.
Allow me to point something out. He wants to write a freely available
software package that can share data, and is useful for the Perl6 environment.
He's not suggesting that we have holiday photos on CPAN-the-network, simply
that the software not care whether the data inside it is a package or not,
just whether it has metadata. If you don't like the "holiday photos"
examples, just skim over them :). It's only 5 or so words to skip :).
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